Editing Infant (section)

=== Sleep ===
{{Main|Infant sleep}}
[[File:Sleeping baby (6410829477).jpg|thumb|A sleeping infant]]
A 2018 review analysed 146 studies on infant sleep behavior and listed several factors that show an effect on sleep duration and the number of night awakenings.<ref name=":2">{{cite journal|first1=Cláudia Castro|last1=Dias|first2=Bárbara|last2=Figueiredo|journal=Early Child Development and Care|title=Sleep-wake behaviour during the first 12 months of life and associated factors: a systematic review|at=pp.&nbsp;1–33|issn=0300-4430|date=2019-03-06|volume=190|issue=15|doi=10.1080/03004430.2019.1582034|url=https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03004430.2019.1582034|access-date=2020-11-01|hdl=1822/59691|s2cid=151246725|hdl-access=free|archive-date=2022-06-21|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220621075905/https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03004430.2019.1582034|url-status=live}}</ref> However, research has indicated that frequent wakings are protective of SIDS.<ref>{{Citation |last1=Ramirez |first1=Jan-Marino |title=Sudden Infant Death Syndrome, Sleep, and the Physiology and Pathophysiology of the Respiratory Network |date=2018 |url=http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK513387/ |work=SIDS Sudden Infant and Early Childhood Death: The Past, the Present and the Future |editor-last=Duncan |editor-first=Jhodie R. |access-date=2023-11-23 |place=Adelaide (AU) |publisher=University of Adelaide Press |isbn=978-1-925261-67-7 |pmid=30035952 |last2=Ramirez |first2=Sanja C. |last3=Anderson |first3=Tatiana M. |editor2-last=Byard |editor2-first=Roger W.}}</ref>

Infant sleep is not linear, ebbing and flowing with developmental milestones and age.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://publications.aap.org/pediatrics/article/142/6/e20174330/37494/Uninterrupted-Infant-Sleep-Development-and?autologincheck=redirected |title=Uninterrupted Infant Sleep, Development, and Maternal Mood |date=December 1, 2018 |access-date=2023-11-23 |website=publications.aap.org}}</ref>

The National Sleep Foundation gives a rough recommendation on sleep hours, that commonly decreases with increasing age.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Hirshkowitz |first1=Max |last2=Whiton |first2=Kaitlyn |last3=Albert |first3=Steven M. |last4=Alessi |first4=Cathy |last5=Bruni |first5=Oliviero |last6=DonCarlos |first6=Lydia |last7=Hazen |first7=Nancy |last8=Herman |first8=John |last9=Adams Hillard |first9=Paula J. |last10=Katz |first10=Eliot S. |last11=Kheirandish-Gozal |first11=Leila |last12=Neubauer |first12=David N. |last13=O'Donnell |first13=Anne E. |last14=Ohayon |first14=Maurice |last15=Peever |first15=John |date=December 2015 |title=National Sleep Foundation's updated sleep duration recommendations: final report |url=https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29073398/ |journal=Sleep Health |volume=1 |issue=4 |pages=233–243 |doi=10.1016/j.sleh.2015.10.004 |issn=2352-7226 |pmid=29073398}}</ref>